Join us as we tell the whole story of the Pilgrim voyage and native people. This concert was originally scheduled for the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower voyage in 2020.

We welcome back CCCO composer-in-residence Cody Forrest for a world premiere, They Were Pilgrims.

Toru Takemitsu's Toward the Sea (1981) for alto flute, harp, and strings was commissioned by Green Peace for the "Save the Whales" campaign, and features a movement dedicated to Cape Cod. We look forward to featuring Zach Sheets, Principal Flute of the Cape Symphony and Charles Overton, harp. The CCCO concludes this stormy journey with Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 in G minor.

Cody W. Forrest (b. 1988) is a composer and educator, fascinated by the ineffable in music and its ability to forge pathways between souls. His works explore the human impulse to share stories, the interplay of musical dichotomies, and a diverse spectrum of expressivity. Cody has been commissioned by Dinosaur Annex, conductor Daniel Hege, and the Cochran Wrenn Duo. His music has been performed by Boston Music Viva, the Cassatt String Quartet, and internationally by violinist Léo Marillier. He has received the Florence Price fellowship from the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music, the Classic Pure Vienna International Composition Competition grand prize, an ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award, and was selected for the 2015 EarShot New Music Readings. In 2016 he served as composer-in-residence for Chamber Music Campania in Varano, Italy. Cody resides in Brookline, MA and currently teaches at Northeastern University and New England Conservatory.

D.M.A., New England Conservatory. M.M., Syracuse University. B.M., University of North Texas. Studies with Kati Agócs, Malcolm Peyton, Daniel S. Godfrey, Andrew Waggoner, and Cindy McTee.

PROGRAM:

TAKEMITSU Toward the Sea 

CODY FORREST They Were Pilgrims

MOZART Symphony No. 40 in G minor

TICKETS:

$35 General Admission - Students & Children FREE